joukko

Finnish

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Definitions
  • group, cluster, band
  • (military) troops usually in plural, force
  • (mathematics) set
  • Used postpositionally in inessive, elative and illative cases to denote among
  • (in compounds) mass involving a mass of people or things

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *joukko derived from Proto-Germanic *jaukiją (draught animal).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*jaukiją

Gloss

draught animal

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